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UK
/ɐɡlˈɛt/
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NOUN
- metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon
- ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform
How To Use aglet In A Sentence
- Eagleton says that opinion, appetite or inclinations are notions of individual desire that become a person's subjectivity.
- Last summer, Caitlin observed bald eaglets fledging from nests at two sites.
- The chimes are sounding at Royal Naval Reserve unit HMS Eaglet after it was presented with a replacement bell in time for centenary commemorations.
- It was brave and ardent, like a young eaglet, "with eyes intentive to bedare the sun;" but it had its traditions to lay down, its experience to buy, and large sections of its military lesson still to learn. Fields of Victory
- And that the ends of our shoelaces are called aglets.
- She pricked her hand on the rusty daglet, and I saw a drupe of blood, red as a cherry, swell on her pall. Wildfire
- So she asked each eaglet what he or she would do when she was old and utterly dependent on their care. In the Fullness of Time
- Terry Eagleton is an outstanding scholar of contemporary western Marxism, whose theory reflects the evolution from literary study to political cultural criticism.
- Dependent too long after independence, fragile like the eaglet Professor Emman Osakwe « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
- But Eagleton, one of the most widely read theorists alive, knows all this, so what does he mean?